The business of death in Caracas – in pictures

The murder rate in the Venezuelan capital has shot up in recent years to become one of the world's worst. Carlos Garcia Rawlins from Reuters has documented the undertakers, tomb chisellers and florists in the business of death

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The leather industry in Kolkata creates a large number of jobs, but it also causes pollution and relies on cheap labour. EPA's Piyal Adhikary visits some of the hundreds of tanneries run by local families

Welcome to Cipacing, a small village in Indonesia where gunsmiths make thousands of air rifles every year – mostly in small back room operations. Getty's Ed Wray heads there to stare down the barrels of the guns

AFP's Junior D Kannah photographs Sapeurs - members of the Society for the Advancement of Elegant People - as they pay annual homage to Stervos Niarchos, the founder of their movement, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo